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Ironclad Rule. The teams live and eat with their patients, and often have to rough it in hostile terrain. When Peru's mountain dwellers showed reluctance to come to M.S.F.'s field hospitals after the 1974 quake, the doctors climbed the Andes by mule and horseback to reach the injured. By ironclad rule, they are scrupulously nonpartisan; no nation has ever rejected them for political reasons. In the Viet Nam, October and Angolan wars, M.S.F. offered help to all; the doctors themselves have so far sustained no casualties. They are also unfazed by the unexpected; after Nicaragua...
Died. Josef Albers, 88, abstract painter and influential art teacher at Black Mountain College and Yale; of heart disease; in New Haven, Conn. The German-born son of a house painter, Albers studied and taught-along with Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky-at Weimar's Bauhaus, the renowned laboratory-workshop of craft and design. When Hitler closed the Bauhaus in 1933, Albers came to the U.S., where he meticulously painted geometric patterns, notably squares within squares, and taught his students to see the ways colors interact. "His criticism was so devastating that I wouldn...
...That three times when he was Army Secretary, Callaway flew by Air Force executive jet to another family-owned resort at Pine Mountain, Ga. Callaway says he paid for the trips...
...murky depths of the Scotia Coal Company's No. 1 Black Mountain Mine, 108 men were at work one morning last week. Suddenly, four miles from the tunnel's entrance, a violent methane-gas explosion ripped through a passageway, shaking the pine-studded mountains of Oven Fork in southeastern Kentucky. Nine men died instantly. Six others survived the blast for a time with their portable air units. But apparently thinking their way out was blocked, the six shielded themselves from fumes with pieces of canvas and awaited rescuers; they were found dead of suffocation...
Less Harsh. Preparing for last week's testimony, Fort spent 300 hours trying to learn all he could about Patty and the case-reading the mountain of documents, talking to her relatives and friends, and even spending an hour in one of the closets where she was held. For 15 hours he talked to Patty herself...